A nation becomes great not by a mere imposition of order and power, but by letting go, knowing that there is much to gain by open discussion. - Tom Butler-Bowdon

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority. A good upbringing should be able to dissolve this sense of inferiority, and as a result the child will not develop an unbalanced need to win at the expense of others.

11 Jerome Bruner Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture (1990) A founder of cognitive psychology argues for a model of the mind based on the creation of meaning rather than computational processing.

Unpleasant feelings merely indicate that you are thinking something negative and believing it.